Sitting at her desk the other day, she got yet another call from a frantic relative with bad news and high expectations.

It was good to get your last letter with news of all the family.

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People say, 'If we can't get a breakthrough with good news, what will happen if we hear some bad news?'

Near the end of the set, Ms. Phair got a phone call with bad news; the parent of a friend was seriously ill.

By ten- thirty he got a call from Henry Sarnoff with depressing news.

Danny Hillis was sitting at his desk in Los Angeles when he got a telephone call with big news.

But every now and then I'd get a letter with news that a friend had been killed in Vietnam.

Sure as I do, I'll get a phone call with bad news.